Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No One is Here Except All of Us | 2012 | Ramona Ausubel | Buy |
| 2 | Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty | 2016 | Ramona Ausubel | Buy |
| 3 | The Last Animal | 2023 | Ramona Ausubel | Buy |
Ramona Ausubel’s three novels are distinct from each other in setting and premise but share a consistent voice — playful, precise, and willing to go somewhere unexpected. No One is Here Except All of Us is set in a Jewish village in Romania in 1939, where the community responds to the approaching war by deciding to reinvent the world from scratch. It won the PEN Center USA Fiction Award and established Ausubel’s reputation.
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (2016) shifts to mid-twentieth century New England and the anxieties of a wealthy liberal family. The Last Animal (2023), her most recent novel, is the most overtly comic — a single mother and her two teenage daughters accompany a mammoth de-extinction project to Siberia, where the daughters’ boredom produces unpredictable results. All three novels are worth reading, and can be read in any order.